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Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States549 Posts
February 08 2012 03:03 GMT
#1
Greetings!

For those of you who don't know me, which should be all of you, my name is Joseph, I play Protoss, and my handle is Nightshade.

The point of this blog is to help encourage me to make progress in Starcraft, as I am striving to eventually make it to the pro-scene, one forcefield at a time.

I've been playing Starcraft off and on for about 4 years, starting with the Broodwar campaign, and I started played Starcraft 2 seriously this last July. I started off as a silver Protoss using my patented Nightshade build, which is also known as the 1 base 5/2/2 triple forge 14 worker rush.

I am now a Mid-Masters player, recently switched to Zerg for a week, and then switched back to Protoss as I saw how much better my race is at the PvZ match up. (And yes, Forcefields should NOT be able to be used on the ramp, voidrays ARE OP, and DTs mean you've won the game as Zerg half the time.) I may switch to Terran for a week as well to help my PvT as well, not sure yet as I am going to a LAN on the 18th.

So, again, this blog is just to help me track progress while sharing it with others as well. I've recently felt alone and with no one to vent to about this or that and this could also help me feel a little less alone in this struggle, as this journey I am making will probably be the hardest bot emotionally and mentally.

I hope those who read will enjoy this blog!

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Endymion
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States3701 Posts
February 08 2012 03:30 GMT
#2
i'm glad you've come to the BM side of saying dts are free wins, long live the overmind
Have you considered the MMO-Champion forum? You are just as irrational and delusional with the right portion of nostalgic populism. By the way: The old Brood War was absolutely unplayable
UmiNotsuki
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States633 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-02-08 03:43:20
February 08 2012 03:42 GMT
#3
Haha, as a Zerg player... now you know how we feel I really don't think Protoss is overpowered at all, but I do think that Protoss players get a LOT of free wins in PvZ; the only way for a Zerg player to win any of their matchups really is to play the entire game perfectly, making no significant mistakes. But even if a Protoss player makes a huge, committed push in the early or early-mid game and it gets trashed, a few DT's will still win the game far more often than is reasonable.

That's not to say that all Protoss players make use of their ability to win a losing game, but those who do certainly make master league a lot faster than equally committed Zerg players. Just the way it's designed,
UmiNotsuki.111 (NA), UNTReborn.932 (EU), UmiNotsuki (iCCup) -- You see that text I wrote above this? I'll betcha $5 that you disagree :D
Nightshade_
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United States549 Posts
February 08 2012 05:32 GMT
#4
lol I meant seeing DTs as a zerg player means Protoss is probably about to lose if you can kill the DTs. Also, can anyone tell me how to punish zergs who take their third base against my FFE at the gold on metal/antiga? any timing attack seem to hit too late and they just out macro me.
Lil' Joey, Master of the A-Move Stalker Strike Force
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